Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
31.01.2026 21:02 — 👍 2297 🔁 1138 💬 64 📌 165@bjorges.bsky.social
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
31.01.2026 21:02 — 👍 2297 🔁 1138 💬 64 📌 165Also that quote about him only being an ORDINARY sex offender????? What????? Like that makes it okay????
01.02.2026 06:59 — 👍 49 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0All of these fuckers could have easily done something else with their lives! They were not about to starve to death if they hadn't accepted Epstein money!
01.02.2026 06:57 — 👍 35 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Application for Canadian citizenship submitted! 🥳
31.01.2026 22:17 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0my god do I love a list
31.01.2026 06:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of the things that drive me like 4/10 crazy is people just taking it for trivially true that social media and smartphones are bad for us, while like all studies show incredibly mixed and inconsistent results
28.01.2026 02:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0INSANE IN A GOOD WAY, OBVUOUSLY!!!!
28.01.2026 02:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ngl, this makes me proud to move back there ♥️ for all your flaws, good job Pedro & Co
27.01.2026 10:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0damn Spain just gave 500.000 illegalized migrants the residence???? That's insane 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
27.01.2026 10:43 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0this book could have been an email
27.01.2026 06:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😂😂😂😂😂
27.01.2026 00:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh my god these people are so embarrassing
26.01.2026 10:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0At this point I refuse to listen to anyone without vocal fry tbh 😂
26.01.2026 10:30 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Now do Eurovision, too
23.01.2026 22:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I do that whenever I have to get to the airport! And other times! Neat!
23.01.2026 21:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tried to bike on Bloor the other day and it was a really fun game of guessing which blocks would be plowed and which werent 🙃🙃🙃 gave up super stressed and I'm not gonna bike anymore until it thaws 🥲
23.01.2026 21:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What is this, jfc 😭😭😭
23.01.2026 07:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
21.01.2026 21:16 — 👍 2626 🔁 786 💬 175 📌 373Grumpy from Disney's Snow White and the 7 dwarves.
Let's talk about "grumpy lab person". Many labs have them. With an eye to keeping science at its most rigorous, they cross the line into criticism that's too harsh. They are the ones who risk killing your scientific spirit. They are reviewer 2. /1
21.01.2026 08:36 — 👍 68 🔁 19 💬 7 📌 5One of the perks of having a shitty neighbour is that people will perceive your own shitty healthcare as much less shitty than it actually is 🥲
18.01.2026 18:28 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Toronto Sun*
(I did a triple take there cause the Star is usually at least somewhat reasonable)
😂
13.01.2026 20:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh, this would have come in handy when the only question I got at a big conference was whether I'd heard of circular correlation and I had to say no 😂
12.01.2026 19:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I am happy to share that our preprint “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” is now out.
Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Ngl it's wild that this even needs to be said
10.01.2026 17:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0which is why I am definitely not upset right now
09.01.2026 06:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0as I have a telepathic connection with the funding agency I absolutely KNEW this was going to happen and totally submitted my application in time
09.01.2026 06:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I am totally not upset that this whole call happened two months earlier than any of the previous years because that's a completely reasonable thing
09.01.2026 06:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh shit this link is great, thank you!
06.01.2026 20:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0